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We have gone for a huggababy sling. After a great deal of wrapping ourselves up in various bits of cloth we are now carting our little one around in one of these. I did try and buy a second hand one but they seem to go for the same price as brand new ones so I got a new one in a colour I like. I have to say there are a number of slings out there designed by the colour illiterate. The only excuse I can come up with is that they are trying to hide the vomit stains. My sling is khaki green and very comfy.

Hopefully it will be very useful. I am trying to be the earth momma but it’s a moniker that doesn’t quite fit somehow. It seems that there are women out there who were born to breast feed, carry their little one in a sling, recycle everything, knit their own sanitary protection (there are people that really do that….). I wonder sometimes what they are trying to prove to themselves. I sometimes count it as a good day if I clean my teeth.

from the greenpeace website in the US

Sinar Mas are a big company that make paper and palm oil. They do it by slash and burning then clearing huge areas of rainforest and peatland in Indonesia releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and making this third world country the world’s third worst CO2 polluter.

Greenpeace have stuck their head above the parapet and revealed which supermarkets in the UK take products from Sinar Mas…. Tesco (no surprises there) and Walmart (Asda).  Other famous brands that do business with them are KFC, Pizza Hut, Dunkin Donuts and Campbell’s soups.

So it’s up to us to decide where we do our shopping and whether we want to spend our hard earned cash on companies prepared to do business with world wreckers.

To be fair – this Greenpeace article says Tesco has stopped buying from them but it’s the principle of the thing.